Accelerating The Fight Against Human Trafficking With Detego Technology

Digital technologies have dramatically increased the complexity of human trafficking investigations. With an estimated 49.6 million victims worldwide in 2024, investigators face the challenge of processing vast amounts of digital evidence across multiple devices, platforms, and jurisdictions.

The critical challenge in these investigations isn’t just gathering evidence – it’s processing and analysing it quickly enough to identify victims and prevent further exploitation. While traditional digital forensics methods can take weeks or months to process evidence from multiple data sources, technological advances within the digital forensics space pave the way for faster investigation turnarounds.

Tools such as Detego Global’s Unified Digital Forensics Platform enable investigators to rapidly extract, analyse and report on data from a wide range of sources, including computers, mobile phones, loose media, drones, IoT devices, apps and cloud storage. From Field Triage for swift on-site analysis to Analyse AI+ for advanced intelligence gathering and reporting, these tools process evidence from thousands of devices, identify patterns and hidden links across different data sources, and generate court-ready reports in minutes.

Here’s how Detego technology can support your investigations:

  • Field Triage: This portable digital forensics tool is designed to quickly analyse and report on data on computers, laptops, servers, and loose media. Its patented red-amber-green alert system helps investigators make fast decisions, making it highly effective for identifying evidence in human trafficking cases. Using keyword and hash-matching technology that’s highly customisable, Field Triage flags investigation-critical data in seconds without requiring lengthy extractions or analysis.
  • MD-LIVE: This portable solution for quick on-site smartphone triage enables retrieving deleted messages, remote device control, and real-time evidence capture. It is extremely valuable for uncovering communication networks, tracking victim movements, and identifying perpetrators in human trafficking investigations. MD-LIVE also helps investigators focus only on the data that matters to investigations by enabling them to conduct selective extractions of data on mobile devices.
  • Ballistic Imager: This internationally patented tool creates forensic images up to 4x faster than the industry standard. Requiring just 30 minutes of training for non-technical users, it enables rapid and forensically sound data acquisition from computers and laptops running Windows, Linux or MacOS. Ballistic Imager ensures that investigators can access evidence quickly in any setting to help uncover trafficking networks and identify key suspects.
  • Media Acquisition: This versatile tool is crucial for quickly identifying evidence across diverse digital sources in trafficking cases. Designed for automated digital data capture from removable media, mobiles, drones, and hard drives, its intuitive interface allows investigators to analyse multiple devices simultaneously, providing live data views for immediate decision-making.
  • Detego MD: This solution enables investigators to forensically secure and analyse data from tens of thousands of devices, including smartphones, SIM cards, IoT devices, and drones. This also includes burner and feature phones and non-brand devices commonly used by gangs. Detego MD is essential for uncovering trafficking networks and gathering critical evidence from numerous sources.
  • MD-CLOUD: This solution provides forensic access to data stored across cloud services, email and IoT devices. This easy-to-use solution enables investigators to securely extract evidence from popular platforms like Google, iCloud, social media, and messaging apps while maintaining forensic integrity.
  • Fusion: Detego Fusion uncovers hidden links between people, places, devices, and cases using advanced link analysis capabilities. This enables investigators to identify trafficking operations and uncover the full scope of their networks. It connects the dots across digital exhibits, such as communication records, financial data, GPS coordinates, and more, while its visual preview feature highlights connections between cases.
  • Analyse AI+: This advanced analytical platform integrates forensic acquisitions from Detego and third-party tools, harnessing AI and automation to uncover evidence and produce court-ready reports. Analyse AI+ comes with fast offline language translation, including cross-language translation, and multi-language OCR, enabling seamless analysis of evidence across borders. AI transcription of audio and video files – common communication modes for traffickers – accelerates intelligence gathering, while face recognition that’s capable of identifying over 20 faces per second, semantic search, and similar image identification (e.g., tattoos linked to gang members) help pinpoint persons of interest within vast datasets in seconds. Additional features like PhotoDNA matching, steganography detection, and AI content identification (weapons, drugs, indecent images) make it indispensable for uncovering hidden evidence in complex human trafficking cases.

Designed for investigators of all technical abilities, the Detego platform enables effective collaboration and helps build iron-clad cases. Its portable solutions support investigations across multiple locations – from borders and transportation hubs to commercial and industrial sites. To explore these capabilities and evaluate their fit for your investigations, request a trial at www.detegoglobal.com.


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